Election Day, Nov. 5,marked 2,563 days since Long Beach Island residents and homeowners forced to evacuate ahead of Superstorm Sandy were allowed back on the barrier island for the first time after the storm unleashed a wrath of destruction that made it the most lethal and catastrophic hurricane of the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season. While traffic on the Garden State Parkway south leading to Exit 63 looked like any summer Saturday traffic on Nov. 5, 2012, it felt different.
In the seven years and seven days since Sandy made landfall just before 8 p.m.
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